INTERNATIONAL DESK - WHY, of all places on earth, should people riot in Switzerland? In Northern Ireland, we have come to expect mobs to take to the streets in frustration over a hunger striker's death. The unprecedented violence in Britain last summer was blamed on the economic woes and resultant unemployment in that country. In Iran, the faithful riot in religious fervor. In poverty-stricken societies of Asia and Africa, food shortages cause riots. In South America it's politics. But why riot in Switzerland? If any place on earth could be said to "have it made," it's this landlocked little country in central Europe. Switzerland is one of the freest democracies on earth.

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